i've never understood overnight oats anyways, just pour milk over some rolled oats? it'll get soaked within like 5 minutes and become kinda mushy anyways. Hell even granola gets mushy kinda quick, and i specifically go for granola because i dislike mushyness!

I've gotten a bit hooked on Trey The Explainer and Tor's Cabinet Of Curiosities because they're basically just a dude talking about their hyperfixation for 40 minutes. Podcast++

that's why, if i were elected supreme dictator of earth, one of my first decrees would be that drivers have to reimburse the passengers for their delay and pay for any damages on the transport vehicle/infrastructure.
Also: 5 repeats of this and you lose your license permanently, and the state will punish you further by giving you a 5-year free public transport pass for the entire country. Oh how i love being evil.

"oh fuck i don't think i fit underneath there, i'll have to go up the side!" splat

while i agree that the crypto stuff is fucking depressing, this is very exaggerated and miserly..

What do you mean by it not being "usable by the general public"? There's a desktop client, browser extensions, and you can legitimately build things with it that "just work" provided you have those things installed.
I'd say you're borderline outright lying.

i think this is also why conifers are so popular for timber these days, grows much faster. AFAIK something like pine takes maybe 40 years until it can be harvested.

On that note i'd also like to see "basic" non-religious beliefs be more viable, it's always bothered me a bit how the whole religion system is basically just structured after the abrahamic religions and their history.
Like yeah sure lock me out of a "proper" religion if i don't go after it from the start, but that shouldn't mean my civilization is just filled with apathetic agnostics or norwegians who'll convert to 5 different religions within the span of 100 years like it's fast fashion.. You should at least be able to keep adding those teensy weensy bonuses every now and then and maintain some defense from religious pressure.

Let me play as dogmatic militant atheist ancestor worshipers dammit

also like, i feel civs already had a pretty decent amount of change just from new policies and religion choices? I would have fleshed that out more, using the systems to add more fundamental but still gradual changes to the vibe of a civilization.

Like imagine if there was more interplay between tech/policies/religion so e.g. certain milestone techs or just unlocking enough of them in a short time caused a "societal revolution" that lets you make some juicy changes to religion/policy. You unlock/use the atom bomb and get a choice to pick how your civilization should respond to this new concept: maybe you embrace anti-proliferation which makes both you and anyone attacking you take a hit to happiness for using nukes, or you learn to stop worrying and love the bomb which just straight up gives you passive happiness for every nuke you posses and using them makes your people squeal with delight.

again, that's not a fundamental issue, that's shit design to fleece you on money. It's like landlords installing self-contained LED fixtures that lock you out of switching the bulb yourself.

From what i can tell this isn't a problem in europe, there are plenty of replacement LED bulbs available.

steam iron manufacturers HATE them

sun exposure is like half the reason behind the stereotypical "old person" appearance, with excessive wrinkles and saggy skin. Go look at someone who spends time sunbathing, they start looking like a leather couch.

i mean, there's a whole thing where movies insist on basically every single actor being conventionally attractive these days.
It's something that stood out to me about Project Hail Mary, the government lady is violently german looking and that's fucking rare to see in big movies these days